HARMAN To Provide HALOsonic External Sound Solution for New Hybrid Vehicles

STAMFORD, CT – HARMAN, the premium global audio and infotainment group (NYSE:HAR), announced today that a major European-based automaker will be integrating HARMAN’s exclusive HALOsonic™ External Sound Synthesis (ESS) solution in a line of plug-in hybrid vehicles. HARMAN’s HALOsonic ESS solution is a potentially life-saving technology that generates sound outside the vehicle, particularly targeted at hybrid or electric vehicles that are virtually silent at low speeds. Hybrids and electric vehicles present a safety concern at low speed as they often cannot be heard and recognized.